A Map of My Want (PB) (2024)

From the critically acclaimed author of HoodWitch, Faylita Hicks's second collection explores the question "where do our desires take us?"

An offspring of Audre Lorde's seminal essay "Uses of the Erotic," Hicks's A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme as they explore where their polyamory and sexual freedom can take them after their escape from a religious cult. In this volume you will find beaches, threesomes, quantum mechanics, nature hikes, floods, and the long walk home from jail. The book is an intimate erotic spell through which Hicks conjures joy as they develop an alternate theory on how to attain happiness.